Summer news--June 13, 2016

St. Nicholas School
Summer News
June 13, 2016
Summer Begins
As your summer begins and your calendar fills up, please stop by the
school website to sign up for our BIG FUNdraising weekend.
CourntryFest and the Baseball Tournament fall on the same weekend—
July 22-24. All help is needed. Come on out and meet some new people,
bring friends. This is the only fundraising we have to do this summer!!
Let’s have fun!!
Sign up for your work spots with the links found on the school website:
www.stnicholasfreedom.org/school.
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Awards
Many awards were given on June 2nd at the last school Mass and awards ceremony.
Other awards were given at graduation at night. Congratulations to those award
recipients. I am proud of your accomplishments.
Perfect Attendance: Not receiving an award, but worth the recognition. Sophia Huss,
Gretchen Ponschock, Kayla Smudde, Abby Vosters, Lucas Van Handel, Hunter
Brockman, Carsten McHugh, Justin Vosters, Jayden Martzahl.
Light of Christ: Samantha Peters
Academic Award: Elizabeth Murphy
Pohls/Green Service Award: Samantha Peters
Compassionate Heart Award: Carol Berg
(We have decided to change the name of this award to honor the
beautiful servant of Christ that Carol Berg is. We will now call it,
“Carol Berg Compassionate Heart Award”.)
Good News: Melanie Vosters, Jovie Verkuilen, Ben Steinbarth, Kayla Smudde,
Weston Konkle, Katelyn Van Handel, Tucker Brockman, Lucas Van Handel, Megan
Bowers
Exceptional Effort: Kaitlyn McGrath, Rebecca Rew, Adria Ponschock, Gracie
Martzahl, Abby Bredael, Megan Meulemans, Ashley Moeller, Courteney Van Camp
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Collect Your Paper & Cardboard…
We have a place for you to put it!
The St. Nicholas Capital Campaign will
be sponsoring a
PAPER RECYCLING FUNDRAISER DRIVE
JUNE 2nd – JUNE 16th
• We receive $100 per ton of paper.
• The proceeds from the paper drive will go towards the
Playground for the Building for the Future expansion project.
• The dumpster will be located in the corner of the parking lot off
CTY S – near the cemetery and close to the street.
Please pass this information onto anyone and everyone! The
more paper and cardboard we collect the more money we
raise toward a new Playground!!!
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Dress Code Changes
for 2016-17 school year
Red, White and Blue
We are Freedom!!
Beginning with the 2016-17 School Year we
will be wearing Red, White and Navy Blue
uniforms at St. Nicholas School. This is what
we’d like to see…
‣ Red, White or Navy Blue Short sleeve
polo/collared shirts
‣ Red, White or Navy Blue Long sleeve
polo/collared shirts
‣ Red, White or Navy Blue Dresses
‣ Red, White or Navy blue plain sweaters
or fleece
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‣ St. Nicholas logo Navy Blue sweatshirts
‣ Navy Blue or Khaki Bottoms (shorts,
pants and skirts) remain the same. No
red bottoms.
“Red“ is the school uniform primary color of
Red, no variations.
We are retiring the light blue shirts and dresses.
Tuesday, August 30—Open House at St.
Nicholas School will include a Shop ’n
Drop where you can pick up uniform
clothing for your children that others
shared back with the school when
children outgrew it.
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Staff Assignments:
PreK3 Class (MWF half day and all day students, some Teaching Assistant of 4K):
Mrs. Mary Godin
4K Class (M-F, half day and all day students): Mrs. Rachel Deuster
3K and 4K Teaching Assistant: Mrs. Vicky Calaway
Kindergarten: Mrs. Dana Wilkinson
First Grade: Mrs. Sharon Preston
Second Grade: Mrs. Brenda Ziehl
Multi-age Classroom (Grades 3/4): Co-teachers, Mrs. Patti Keuhn and Mrs. Melissa
Vander Heiden (using current 3rd grade room and 5th grade room across from bathrooms)
Fifth Grade: Mrs. Ashley Skenandore (staying in current 4th grade room)
Middle School—6, 7, 8th grades—Middle School Team: Mr. Travis Gerritts, Mrs. Sue
Shinners, Mr. Eric Romenesko
Spanish (4K-8th): Ms. Casey Wegener
Music (4K-8th): Mrs. Cathy Groh
Physical Education (4K-8th): Mrs. Katie Jansen
Hot Lunch Coordinator: Mrs. Stephanie Wieczorek
Administrative Assistant: Mrs. Marcia Wyman
Deacon and School Support: Deacon Gary Van Ess
Pastor: Fr. Walter Stumpf
Business Manager: Mrs. Cortney Curran
Parish Secretary: Mrs. Lynn VanDenBosch
New Evangelization Coordinator and Sacraments: Mrs. Kathy Brennan
LoSec (Virtus, Protecting God’s Children): Mrs. Sandy Schmit
Building and Maintenance: Mr. Mark Lang
IT: Mr. David Eversen
Principal: Ms. Becky Morrin (shared with St. Edward)
Total Board of Education Members:
Fr. Walter Stumpf, Becky Morrin, Kathy Brennan, Chris Schmidt (Chair), Mark
VanderLinden, Leah Van Handel, Jill Cropsey, Kathy Brockman, Mike VanderLoop, Bob
Schommer, Jessica Vanden Heuvel, Jeremy Kater.
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